Tools for Change – August 2022

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Welcome to the latest edition the monthly newsletter, Tools for Change – A Convenient Digest and Curated Collection of Information, Tools and Resources to Help You in Your Life and Work

New This Month on The Living a Life in Full Podcast

August’s guest on my podcast is Charlie Bresler, PhD on Effective Altruism and How to Amplify Your Impact.

Extreme poverty has devastating effects on over 700 million people globally. Every year 5.3 million children, under the age of five, die, and more than half of these deaths could have been easily prevented if they would have been fortunate enough to have been born in the United States.

In 2020, the world saw global wealth surpass?$400 trillion?for the first time in history. Yet?climate extremes and economic slowdowns led?811 million people to go hungry, and?the pandemic?pushed nearly 100 million people into extreme poverty, creating a?“historically unprecedented”?increase in the number of global poor.?

Peter Singer has famously noted that “we have an ethical obligation to use some portion of our wealth and privilege to save lives and reduce the unnecessary suffering associated with extreme poverty—defined as living on less than $1.25 USD/day.”?Almost a decade ago, Charlie Bresler became volunteer Executive Director and co-founder of?The Life You Can Save, a non-profit dedicated to reducing extreme poverty. Through his financial support and leadership, Charlie has helped Peter Singer, develop the organization from the ground up. The Life You Can Save’s mission is to inspire more people to give effectively and end world poverty.

And Charlie has famously said that it’s a privilege, not just a responsibility to save lives, reduce suffering, and empower livelihoods through using the financial resources he and his wife were lucky to have, and through the hard work of helping to grow the number donors to amazing nonprofits. The “amplification” of how much further a dollar goes in impoverished countries is the perspective Singer and Charlie suggest should affect our giving decisions.

?The effective altruism movement has reignited thinking how much we should give and where. “What greater motivation can there be than doing whatever one possibly can to reduce pain and suffering?”

Charlie is a heroic figure that lives his ethos and life in full, and in the service of others. Please see the notes and links below to learn more, get a free copy of the book, take the pledge, contribute, get their newsletter, and help make the world a better place.

Be sure to tune in on your favorite platform, or if you’re not into podcasts, read all about it on my LinkedIn Influencer post.

Well Said

“The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.” –?Mahatma Gandhi

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” –?Henry David Thoreau

“The record shows that, for society, the richer we become, the harder it is to live within our means. Abundance is harder for us to handle than scarcity.” - Nassim Taleb

"The most successful people in life recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In hindsight, it looks as if the projects I was most passionate about were also the ones that worked. But objectively, my passion level moved with my success. Success caused passion more than passion caused success.” - Scott Adams

“Exemplary leaders reward dissent. They encourage it. They understand that, whatever momentary discomfort they experience as a result of being told they might be wrong, it is more than offset by the fact that the information will help them make better decisions.” - Warren Bennis

“It's a mistake to think that ambition and productivity are perfectly aligned.” —Gregory Warner?

Tools for Productivity

?‘Body Doubling,’ an ADHD Productivity Tool, Is Flourishing Online - Working in the company of other people, a practice sometimes called “body doubling,” is a popular idea for boosting focus and motivation. But is it an option for remote work? Discover how the emergence of “virtual coworking spaces” is making it accessible for more people.

?The Real Reason We Dread Our Inboxes - To truly conquer your inbox, you need more than organization and scheduling tips. You need to address the emotions that make emails scary. Learning how to answer difficult questions and manage awkward interactions is a great first step.

Tools for Living Your Life in Full

Don’t Surround Yourself With Admirers: Instead, befriend people who inspire awe in you.

Wealth vs. Getting Wealthier - by Morgan Housel

7 Simple Exercises to Strengthen Your Relationship - Relationships are like muscles. They can be deliberately strengthened, and they can also atrophy. Here are seven out-of-the-box exercises that could strengthen your relationship, including, for example, reading to each other.?

Greatness without Goals - Kenneth Stanley?Ken presents an extremely provocative idea; there is no good strategy to achieve something great. You can only maximize your chances of achieving something useful by following a path of interestingness. It’s an idea you need to hear. Pairs with?Growth Without Goals? on why goal setting can be a trap, and how continuous growth can be realized through exploration without expectation.

How to remember what you read. It's not about what you read, but?how?you read. Let's face it — reading a book from start to finish doesn't necessarily mean that you've truly comprehended the content. So learn how to get more out of your reading sessions and actually remember what you've read by using the helpful strategies in this guide.

Tools for Wealth Management

How Is Income In Retirement Taxed?

Tools for Fitness and Performance

When the Last Thing You Want to Do Is Exercise - Having trouble sticking with an exercise routine? Try giving yourself something to look forward to during your workout — such as a trashy audiobook or mindless podcast that you only listen to on the way to and from the gym,

Here's a fun full-body strength workout?you can do using a single resistance band.

Tools for your Career

50 Powerful Keywords For Your Resume to Indicate You’re a Leader - Consider limiting the use of “manage” on your resume, opting instead for more powerful keywords for your resume that can better indicate you're a leader.

5 Job Interview Techniques That Actually Work - Finding a new job can be a daunting task. From updating your resume to preparing for interviews, there are a lot of moving parts. To help, here are five interview techniques that actually work.

Tools for Investing

From two of my favorite people: Richer, Wiser, Happier Podcast: How to Build Enduring Wealth w/ Guy Spier (Part 1,?Part 2) [If you’d prefer the video or transcript versions….?Part 1,?Part 2)

A bunch of great (free) budgeting spreadsheets

Fiscovery.com?— feeds of all FIRE bloggers streaming on the homepage

FiFeeds.com?— similar to the above, but much cleaner/easier to read

Source of FIRE?— similar to above, but harder to read

CollectingWisdom.com?— feeds of all $$$ bloggers in general streaming on the homepage, and many FIRE specific too

PersonalFinanceBlogs.com/daily-personal-finance-blog-feed/?— great curation site in general, but also has a streaming feeds page as well linked there

CampfireFinance.com/fire-feed/?— another curation site with feeds page, although not as active as PF Blogs above (the curation part – the streaming part is live and instantaneous)

Howard Marks Memo: I Beg to Differ

Howard Marks on Warren Buffett, Writing Memos, Investing Psychology & Crypto (video) [H/T Linc]

Tools for Leadership

3 Ways Video Can Boost Remote Worker Engagement. Video conference?calls aren't the only way to engage your remote employees through video. In this article, Dan Schawbel explores three ways to use video content to elevate your employee experience beyond a Zoom meeting room.

How Not to Be a Token Board Member: Diversity in Leadership - To learn how women and underrepresented groups can secure seats on boards of directors, BioSpace spoke with perception analyst Dian Griesel and board member Terry Coelho.

Tools for Founders

Running a biz during economic uncertainty. If you've been operating a business during the pandemic, you're no stranger to the unique challenge entrepreneurs have faced in the last two years. While no one has the perfect formula for running a successful business during unprecedented times, Wade Foster offers up seven ways small business owners can work smarter and not harder during this season.

Tools for Web3

Are N.F.T.s All Scams? - Freakonomics Radio Podcast: 509

Tools to Be Aware of What’s Impacting Health & Medicine?

Digital Health

How to prevent telehealth from exacerbating health disparities - Telehealth offers new options for delivering care, but organizations will need to work together to ensure that it doesn’t create a deeper care divide.

Optimizing interoperability by amplifying the clinician voice - Interoperability experts urge providers to offer their input and then jump in and take advantage of technology.

How to Help Patients Overcome Barriers to Treatment - Discover the biggest barriers patients face when seeking healthcare treatment, and find out what physicians can do to help patients overcome these barriers and improve patient engagement.

Tools for Health and Wellness

This Fall Will Be a Vaccination Reboot

Study: Meaningful Activities Reduce Loneliness, Improve Health - An obvious solution to loneliness is to spend more time with other people. But that’s not always possible. Fortunately, research has discovered another surprising way to reduce loneliness and boost positive feelings, at least in the short-term: try engaging in meaningful, challenging activities during your free time.

Tools for Public Health

The Public Health National Center for Innovations

Program for Appropriate Technology in Health

Public Health Foundation

Tools for Global Work and Policy

Center for Strategic and International Studies

APA’s Global Insights Newsletter

Tools for Finding Conferences

Conal Conference Alerts

Neurology and Psychiatry

Tools for Healthcare Career Insights

Curated from Medpage Today

Tools for a New Gig

How a Recession Could Weaken the Work-From-Home Revolution

How to Land the Job You Want With the Skills You've Got - Damon Brown discusses the universal struggle we all face when seeking a purpose-driven career. This one is for the side hustlers, solopreneurs, creatives or anyone looking to make their mark on the world.

Many white-collar workers are commanding compensation increases of?20 percent or more?due to inflation.

Here’s Behavioral Health Tech’s jobs board?to see?all of the current?opportunities?from the leading companies in behavioral health.

See?who’s hiring?in health and fitness here.

From 80,000 Hours - There are a variety of ways to contribute to?global priorities research, including?academic research,?working as a?grantmaker, and?doing charity evaluation.

To browse or search hundreds of recent job postings, visit the?job board?in PND, it includes foundation, public charity, education, and nonprofit jobs in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, the District of Columbia, and elsewhere.

Positions from BioSpace

• Academic?
• Biotechnology?
• Diagnostics?
• Government
• Healthcare?
• Medical Device?
• Non-Profit?
• Pharmaceutical?
• Research Institute?

DiversityMD is a Career Job Board and Information Resource for Physicians regardless of age, race, gender, religion, education, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or physical characteristics. They are a “niche” website for Physicians of all levels of practice from Medical Students, Residents, Fellows on up to Medical Directors and CMO’s.

Tools to Travel the World

Trip of a Lifestyle:?How Two Twenty-Somethings Visited Every National Park

The Fioneers:?What We Learned From Our Van Life Experiment

The Fioneers:?We Bought a Camper Van! What To Do Before You Make a Huge Purchase

All Options Considered:?Airstream Basecamp Trips Part 1, with Training Wheels!

Grosvenor Teacher Fellowships From National Geographic

National Geographic professional development grants?

Earth Expedition?

Ford Foundation Global Travel & Learning Fund?

Institute of International Education?

Google conference and study scholarship?

Omprakash Ethical global engagement grants?

Tata Trust Travel grants

A Gym Membership for Your Brain

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Tools for Humanitarian Intervention

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Tools for Connecting

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In Closing

And even though I know our readers are very smart, I nevertheless have to say that this newsletter does not provide medical, psychological, legal, financial, healthcare, or any other form of advice. As I have said elsewhere, don’t be a knucklehead.

Big thank you to meta-sourcing sites and folks: BioSpace, Ron Friedman, PhD, Inc., Farnum Street’s Brain Food, McKinsey & Co., Medpage, MedScape, Joe Koster from Value Investing World, FirstRound, Ramit Sethi, Forbes InnovationRx, The Knowledge Project - organized by theme, 80,000 Hours, The Collaborative Fund, Colossus, Sonny Patel, Unmistakable Media, Top Tier,?NeuroFlow, O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, Health Data Management Group, Fitt, Budgets Are Sexy - be sure to check them out. And as always, I have no financial, marketing or affiliate relationship with any of the sources noted herein.

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Chris

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